A baseball player in Minnesota is proving that friendship comes before competition.

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Video of a Mounds View High School pitcher is going viral after he took a moment to console a Totino-Grace High School player who missed the ball and ultimately struck out. As the team went to celebrate the win, Ty Koehn, the pitcher, went to home base to hug the young man who happened to be his childhood friend.

The Star Tribune reports that the two played baseball together as children. They parted ways in high school as Koehn went to a public school, Mounds View, and the teen up to bat, Jack Kocon, went to a private school, Totino-Grace.

Several people took notice of the video, commending the pitcher for running to console his friend before celebrating.